Hernández

Where the name comes from

• Spanish
  Son of Hernando (Fernando)
  Hernando, a form of Fernando
  Patronymic. DAFN: "Spanish (Hernández): patronymic from the personal name Hernando (see Fernando)." Hernando is the form of Fernando with h- in place of f-. Fernando is a Germanic name carried into Spanish through Visigothic naming (the Gothic form is given as Frið-nanð in secondary sources). DAFN adds that the surname "has also been established in southern Italy mainly in Naples and Palermo since the period of Spanish dominance there." The origin of the Spanish -ez patronymic ending is debated: proposals include a Latin genitive, a pre-Roman (Iberian or Basque) suffix, and Latinized Gothic genitives; none is settled.
• Sephardic Jewish
  Iberian surname kept by converso descendants
  DAFN records adoption at conversion to Roman Catholicism, and that after a later return to Judaism "some Jewish descendants retained the surname that their families had adopted as Roman Catholics."

Hernández across traditions

• United States. DAFN calls Hernández "the eleventh most frequent surname in the US."

Who carried it

• Juano Hernández (1896–1970): Puerto Rican actor.
• Oscar Isaac (Óscar Isaac Hernández Estrada) (Born 1979): Guatemalan-born American actor.

Forms in other languages

Hernandes, Fernández, Fernandes (Portuguese), De Hernández

Hernández in letter-number systems

Hebrew, Greek and other traditions gave every letter a number, and read meaning into the totals. These are the counts, computed; the readings are inside the Innerverse.